Improvement in rain-water cut-offs



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

CHARLES SHAW, OF-HENRY, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN RAIN-WATER CUT-OFFS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patentr No. 155,761, dated October6, 1874; application filed September 1, 1874. l

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLESA SHAW, of Henry, in the county of Marshalland State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Rain-Water Cut-Offs 5 and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had' to theaccompanying drawings, and to the. letters of reference marked thereon,which form part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a rainwater cut-oif, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

ln order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in whichvFigure 1 is afront view of my invention, and Fig. 2 :is a verticalsection of the same.

A represents the end of an ordinary rainwater pipe, and B is the pipeleading into the l cistern. The end of the pipe A is formed or providedwith lips C C on opposite sides. To

within the same, and allow of the pipe D bei ing turned at about anangle of forty-five degrees, with either end downward. The pipe l) is ateach end provided with a spout, G, as 011e of these spouts is soarranged that when that end of the pipe Dis turned down said spout willenter the upper end of the cistern-pipe B, and the other spout, Whenthat end is turned down, will connect with a waste-pipe, or let the.water pass ont on the ground. p

The rst water that comes off the roof should be allowed to pass ott'until it gets clear; then the pipe D is simply turned on its pivot, andthe water will then pass into the cistern. Having thus fully describedmy invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

rIhe combination, with the rain-water pipe A and cistern-pipe B, of thelips or Wings C C, attached to the pipe A, and the pivoted pipe D,provided with a spout, G, at each end, suhstantially as and for thepurposes herein set forth. l

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signaturein presenceof two witnesses.

CHARLES SHAW. Witnesses:

WALTER SCOTT, WM. E. CLARK.

